Conducting Effective and Productive Psychoeducational and Therapy Groups: A Guide for Beginning Group Leaders

Conducting Effective and Productive Psychoeducational and Therapy Groups offers a four-part structure designed to prepare future and beginning group leaders for the challenges that lie ahead: Getting Started, Encouraging Productivity, Troubleshooting/Problem Solving, and Closures. Along the way, readers will find practical, step-by-step instructions and guidance; activities to promote involvement, growth, and self-understanding; as well as processes and procedures to prevent and resolve difficult behaviors. Also included are 40+ activities, a typology of difficult member profiles, strategies to increase leader effectiveness, and a chapter on toxicity among groups as well as group members.

About the Author

Nina W. Brown, EdD, is a professor and eminent scholar at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. She received her doctorate from the College of William and Mary and is a member of the American Counseling Association, the Society of Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy (APA Division 49), and a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. Her 30+ books include Teaching Group Dynamics ; Expressive Processes for Group Counseling ; Group Counseling for Middle and Elementary School Children ; Psychoeducational Groups (now in its fourth edition); Becoming a Group Leader ; Facilitating Challenging Groups ; and Creative Activities for Group Therapy . Books on other topics include The Destructive Narcissistic Pattern ; Children of the Self-Absorbed (two editions); Loving the Self-Absorbed ; and Coping with Infuriating, Mean, Critical People .